Used t490 / t480. Can you elaborate on the “heavy limited by space”?

If someone was willing to invest into building and maintaining infrastructure there would be no need for this concept, but that’s a political issue. The idea of this concept is do make the best of what you have.

How would traffic pass each other? You would be stuck with the same issue as normal trains.

No I’m not catastrophising.

2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all

Yeah, I don’t know about that.

Yes, as the semantic of words is context dependent.

I can’t quite figure out what would be the use cases where bcache would excel, except for hdds without cache or systems with very limited ram. Can you help me out with that?

Hmm the prices on eBay really don’t seem that good to me in comparison to newer generations. I guess the power consumption will eat up any savings pretty quickly. Though this might differ for whole sets.

That’s a bad comparison. Without a lock you can just open the door from the outside.

You’re having way too many thoughts about this. I’ll give you a simple choice: It’s either Xubuntu or Linux Mint.

Simply choose by which one looks better to you. Done.

In a year you can look back at your post and decide again if there is anything you want to change or you’re in dire need of a Linux hobby and Gentoo is all you’ve ever been looking for.

That’s a horrible recommendation!

It’s so easy to change instances, and there are extensions and things to export/import your subscriptions, etc.

Hmmm

Interesting how much you’re able to read into that.

I don’t have the funds to pay for ultra

What’s the point here then?

You can get ad free for less than 1/4 of the ultra price.